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Tag Archives: food
Stop eating to extinction and maintain food biodiversity says Dan Saladino
Dan Saladino’s written an engrossing account of some of the world’s rarest foods in ‘Eating to Extinction: The world’s Rarest Food and Why We Need to Save Them‘. In this conversation he discusses why, tells some of the stories and … Continue reading
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Tagged Agriculture, biodiversity, climate change, culture, food
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Vulnerability and resilience of Pacific Island food systems in the face of climate change
I’m grateful to an old Fijian friend of mine for linking me up with Dr Mary Taylor. She was a lead editor for an exhaustive 573 page book on the ‘Vulnerability of Pacific Island agriculture and forestry to climate change’. … Continue reading
Posted in Interviews, Reports
Tagged Agriculture, climate change, diabetes, Farming, Fiji, food, forestry, Pacific Communities, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, vulnerability
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Clean drinking #water and safe #sanitation are essential parts of healthy #food systems
While COVID-19 has focussed attention on lack of clean water for millions people to wash their hands, clean water and proper sanitation are also essential for healthy food and farming. Here, Rick Johnston from the World Health Organisation explains the … Continue reading
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Tagged Agriculture, food, sanitation, water, WHO, World Health Organisation
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Safeguarding biodiversity for food and agriculture needed urgently
Global biodiversity is severely threatened, including that which we depend upon for food, Continue reading
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Tagged agricultural biodiversity, Agriculture, agrobiodiversity, agroecology, biodiversity, CBD, climate change, FAO, food
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COVID-19 reveals foodsystems weaknesses and lessons for its transformation says IFPRI’s 2021 Global Food Policy Report
‘Transforming Food Systems after COVID-19’ is both a big challenge and the title of the Washington, DC-based International Food Policy Research Institute’s (IFPRI) latest 124 page report. Here, John McDermott, who has directed the CGIAR Research Programme on Agriculture for … Continue reading
Civil society must collaborate in a long food movement for sustainable food systems by 2045
Lead author, Pat Mooney, of the report ‘A Long Food Movement? Transforming food systems by 2045’ explains why civil society must act to cut waste and avoid an “agribusiness-as-usual” approach in which power in the food system is handed over to data platforms, private equity firms, and e-commerce giants. Continue reading
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Tagged CGIAR, civil society, FAO, food, food systems, Food Systems Summit, IFAD, WFP
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Food in a Changing Climate – an Australian perspective from Prof Alana Mann
Australian Professor Alana Mann discusses some key themes from her recent book ‘Food in a Changing Climate’ in this wide-ranging conversation. She believes Australia could be seen as a case study in what can go badly wrong if you are naive about climate change and our food systems. Continue reading
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Tagged Australia, climate change, COVID-19, food, food systems, indigenous knowledge, pandemics
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Pharma, food and innovation – time for a rethink, says Prof Graham Dutfield
Rules on intellectual property and other legal requirements affect food, farming, medicines, biodiversity and are changing the meaning of property. Continue reading
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Tagged biodiversity, Farming, food, Intellectual Property, medicines, patents, pharma
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Slavery lies behind today’s diets says historian James Walvin
What we eat and drink has a history. And when it comes to some ubiquitous things like sugar and coffee, as well as plantation-based commodities, slavery lies at the heart of that history. From his first book ‘A Jamaican Plantation: … Continue reading
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Tagged coffee, colonialism, Europe, Farming, food, North America, plantations, racism, Slavery, South America, sugar, UK
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Reflections from the UK on COVID-19 and our food systems
In Mid-May, I was asked to make this video as a contribution to the Agricultural and Food Ethics Association of Turkey (TARGET) ‘Virtual Conferences in the days of Corona’. It starts with a brief introduction in Turkish with sub-titles in … Continue reading →